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**Buyingtime** · 08-27-2012, 01:35 PM

It's that way with our Lulu dog too and she's an American Bulldog. The biggest cream puff you ever saw, sleeps with the goats for crying out loud, let my youngest boy learn to walk hanging on to her collar and people walk around her sometimes instead of just walking by. Never ceases to amaze me.

My grandparents had a Boxer named Duchess that taught my uncle to walk by laying on the floor, letting him grab her, standing up very slowly and then walking him.

Ike gets the same treatment Lulu does when we go out. A few people get excited and want to come pet him, but most give us an obviously wide berth.

I'd never even heard of the breed until about 5 years ago when I was researching breeds to decide what kind of dog I wanted. I didn't believe it when I read more about the breed and found passages about them being a bit emotionally sensitive until I raised Ike. Good God, that dog is the most emo creature I have ever seen. Yet he has decent prey drive and has on occasion even acted like a guardian breed when someone was messing around the house for nefarious purposes late at night. But otherwise he is just the biggest, neediest, gentle giant.

What really blew my mind was the whole time I was standing on the lawn trying to convince J my dog wasn't going to eat him M and D's 3 year old daughter came running up to scratch and hug on Ike. They're the same size when she's standing and he's sitting. They've been buddies since she was about 2 and are mutually fascinated with each other. Yet this grown man was truly scared of him. Hell, every kid on the block likes Ike. Guess they haven't learned fear yet.

08-27-2012, 01:35 PM	#16
Buyingtime Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 557 Senior Member	It's that way with our Lulu dog too and she's an American Bulldog. The biggest cream puff you ever saw, sleeps with the goats for crying out loud, let my youngest boy learn to walk hanging on to her collar and people walk around her sometimes instead of just walking by. Never ceases to amaze me. My grandparents had a Boxer named Duchess that taught my uncle to walk by laying on the floor, letting him grab her, standing up very slowly and then walking him. Ike gets the same treatment Lulu does when we go out. A few people get excited and want to come pet him, but most give us an obviously wide berth. I'd never even heard of the breed until about 5 years ago when I was researching breeds to decide what kind of dog I wanted. I didn't believe it when I read more about the breed and found passages about them being a bit emotionally sensitive until I raised Ike. Good God, that dog is the most emo creature I have ever seen. Yet he has decent prey drive and has on occasion even acted like a guardian breed when someone was messing around the house for nefarious purposes late at night. But otherwise he is just the biggest, neediest, gentle giant. What really blew my mind was the whole time I was standing on the lawn trying to convince J my dog wasn't going to eat him M and D's 3 year old daughter came running up to scratch and hug on Ike. They're the same size when she's standing and he's sitting. They've been buddies since she was about 2 and are mutually fascinated with each other. Yet this grown man was truly scared of him. Hell, every kid on the block likes Ike. Guess they haven't learned fear yet.
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